I struggle to find material that is easy enough for me to follow and well structured (sh.itjust.works)

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I've done a bit of programming before. I'm in a bachelors program for structural engineering, but they only get us to focus on Python.

Python material is so very wordy. I often try to restart from basics, and there's a lot of 'you have to reinstall it and use the pure python version, it's the only way you'll learn it properly' - but I find this way more confusing than using an IDE. I struggle to implement new libraries as well, in my existing IDE (i use spyder). Feels so clunky.

I want to be able to make things i can actually use, practice programming regularly, but I'm really not good at self directed stuff. Or even setting things up, as i tried to explain with the second paragraph. Any pointers towards relevant resources?

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Use PyCharm if you can, a very very user friendly (and newbie friendly) IDE IMO.

Are you struggling with something specific otherwise?

You can also just ask away on duck.ai, useful for short examples like open and read a file, store things on a dict etc.

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